Mark Bennett was born in Frankfurt, Germany in 1970. He grew up overseas (in New Delhi, India and Bangkok, Thailand) and in the Washington, D.C. area. After graduating from the American Embassy School in New Delhi, he moved to Houston to study political science and Religious Studies at Rice University, where he was an honor roll student. He graduated from Rice in 1992 with a bachelors degree in Religious Studies and began law school at the University of Houston Law Center (where he met Jennifer).

When he started at UH, Mark knew that he wanted to be a criminal defense lawyer. There he was known as a person who (in the words of one professor) "goes right up to the line . . . then leans way over." He finished the three-year program in two and a half years and took the Texas bar exam in November 1994. When the bar results came back in May 1995, he received his law license and opened his practice. For the first couple of years, he accepted cases other than criminal defense. He represented people in divorces and personal injury cases as well as writing wills and contracts. Because his heart was set on a criminal defense practice, he eliminated the other types of cases from his practice and focused on the defense of people accused of crimes.

Since then Mark has tried felony and misdemeanor cases successfully in state courts across Texas, and in federal courts across the United States, and has represented people on appeal in both state and federal courts. He has a reputation for defending with compassion, intelligence, and imagination. In continuing legal education programs he has taught his fellow criminal defense lawyers about several topics related to their practice. He also teaches criminal trial advocacy (that is, how to try criminal cases) at the University of Houston Law Center.

Mark is dedicated to providing the best possible defense to those accused. To that end, in 1999 he attended the Trial Lawyers College in Dubois, Wyoming, spending five weeks on Gerry Spence's ranch honing his trial skills. When he graduated he joined a select group of trial lawyers across the country who have discovered a new, better way to represent people. It was in part because of this training that Mark has been named one of the top criminal defense lawyers in Houston by H Texas Magazine.